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Anne Beatts
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Anne Beatts is an American writer who has helped shape key cornerstones of US comedy, including her work with the National Lampoon magazine and the early years of Saturday Night Live. Beatts is regarded as something of a pioneer in TV and comedy circles, as an early female comedy writer and one of the very few female writers working in the National Lampoon/SNL comedy scene of the '70s. She created the cult hit 1982 CBS series Square Pegs and appeared in several episodes (she also did uncredited acting work on the early SNL), and while the series only lasted one season it has been frequently rerun since and several of the cast members (most notably Sarah Jessica Parker) have gone on to greater fame. Since Square Pegs, Beatts wrote the book for the 1985 Ellie Greenwich jukebox musical Leader of the Pack and produced the first season of A Different World in 1987-1988 and since then has gradually dropped out of sight, writing for television very rarely. Her most recent TV credit was the 56th Annual Writers Guild Awards in 2004. In 2006, she directed an episode of the series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You.
Beatts was played by Jacqueline Pillon in the 2002 TV movie Gilda Radner: It's Always Something.
Beatts is currently serving as one of the judges for the comedy competition Project Breakout.
